Types Of Marks

The exclamation mark is used to express a strong emotion or sudden surprise. It can be used in the following ways:

1. To express a command or warning

eg. Leave at once!

Walk carefully! It is very slippery!

2.To show emotion

eg. That hurts!

Help! I am stuck!

3.To express wish or regret

eg. I wish I could win the jackpot!

4. To show contempt, disgust or to hurt insults

eg. How utterly disgusting!

The colon is used to introduce a list of items and to also separate hours and minutes when writing time.

eg.

Melissa went to the market and bought: tomatoes, cabbage and pepper.

12:30 a.m.

1:45 p.m.

The semi-colon can be used in place of a conjunction when two sentences are similar.

eg.

I went to Scarborough; Tobago and Port of Spain; Trinidad.